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cn coin 5586

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CN Type 4431 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 520-500 BC

Archaic Period 🔍

Obverse
Die
Abd_024_A21 🔍
Legend
Legend obverse Α
Design
Griffin seated left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like curved upwards wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding; six dots spread in field.
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Reverse
Die
Abd_024_P23 🔍
Design
Quadripartite incuse punch.
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Metrology
Denomination
Distater (octadrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
27 mm
Weight
29.45 g
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18232882

Provenience: 1900 Imhoof-Blumer

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 38, nr. 1  ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11 ff., nr. 2, pl. 3, pic. 22  ❐

Svoronos, L'Hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine prouvé par la numismatique et l'or du Pangée, Paris 1919 p. 63, nr. 5, pl. 15, pic. 5  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 122, nr. f, pl. 1, pic. 120,1  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 65, nr. 24 a  ❐

Literature

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 38, nr. 1 ❐

Fritze, Die autonomen Münzen von Abdera. Eine chronologische Studie 3, 1909 p. 11 ff., nr. 2, pl. 3, pic. 22 ❐

Svoronos, L'Hellénisme primitif de la Macédoine prouvé par la numismatique et l'or du Pangée, Paris 1919 p. 63, nr. 5, pl. 15, pic. 5 ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 122, nr. f, pl. 1, pic. 120,1 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 65, nr. 24-25, pl. 2 (540/535-520/515 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 148 (Date.)  ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

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cn coin 5586, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_5586 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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